Bottle-filling machine.



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PATENTED JUNE 28, 1904.

W. F. PANNING. BOTTLE FILLING MACHINE.

APPLIUATION FILED 0d'1.23, 1903.

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UNITED STATES Patented June 28, 1904. v

PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM RFANNING, or CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

' BOTTLE-FILLING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.-'763,601 dated June 28, 1904. Application filed October 23, 1903. Serial N 'o. 178,194. (No model.)

To all whom it may cbnccrnu,

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM F. FANNITNG, a

citizen of the United States of America, and

a resident of Chicago, Cook county, Illinois,

of liquid into the bottles; and it also contemplates the provision of certain details and features of improvement'tending to increase the general efiic'iency' of a bottle-filling machine of this particular. character; but the nature and advantages of my invention will, however, 7

hereinafter more fully appear. I

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevationof a bottle-filling machine embodying the principles of my invention. Fig. 2 is ahorizontal section online 2 2 Fig. 1. Fig.- 3 is a vertical section through the upper portion of ,the machine on line 3 3 in Fig. 1. Fig. 4. is a detail view similar to Fig. 3, showing one of the filling and discharge pipes with which each reservoir is provided.

in a depressed position-that is to say, in position to discharge the contents of the subrservoir into a bottle.

As thus illustrated, my improvedbottle-filling machine may comprise an upright frame or body A of. any suitable form or construction. A main reservoir B is mounted upon the upper portion of this frame or body, and in order that the correct or desired quantities of liquid may be accurately measured off before the same is discharged into the bottles the said reservoir is provided with apl'urality of depending subreservoirs C, which are preferably of glass. These subreservoirs may consist of glass cylinders held in place against the bottom of the main reservoir by clamping-boltd and plates c and'c. Asshown in the drawings, each subreservoir is provided with an air-vent inthe form of a pipe 0 which extends from adesired point in the reservoir to some distance above themain reservoir. The bottom of each subreservoir is also preferably provided with a stnifing-box c and the top wall of each subreservoir is provided, with stufiing-boxes c and 0 one for the pipe 0 and the other for the pipe 0 As will be observed, these pipes are all arranged vertically, the pipes 0 beingconnected for simultaneous vertical reciprocation by means of a frame or member w. The pipes c work in the stuffing-boxes c and c and are each provided with an upper inlet 0 and a lower outlet 0 Cone-shaped portions 0 are preferably secured in the lower ends of the pipes c,

and theflaring or funnel-shaped guards 0 are mounted to slide upon the lower ends of these pipes. The pipes 0 can be adjusted up and down, so as to measure off dilferent quantities of liquid from the main reservoir to the subreservoirs. Normally the liquid flows from the main reservoir through the inlet-openings 0 thence through the pipes cfiand out into the subreservoir-s through the dischargeopen ings e With this arrangement the liquid can v only rise in th'e'subreservoirs until it reaches The escape of the lower endsof the pipes 0 the air from the subreservoirs being thus cut off, the liquid can rise no farther, and in this way the desired or predetermined quantities of liquid are measured air into the subreser- Voirs.

The pipes c are adapted to be manually reciprocated through the medium of a treadle "D, a cross-bar id, and the vertically-arranged connecting-rods d, which latter are connected at their upper ends withthe frame or member Springs 03 extending between the crossbar d and the bottle-support E, serve asv the means for keeping the pipes c in their normal or elevated positions.

The bottle-support E can be mounted on the main frame or body. As shown, it is preferably provided with a vertically-adjustable platform 0, adapted to be raised and lowered by means of the adjustable screw 6, so as to adapt the machine for use in connection with bottles or other receptacles of different heights and sizes. This adjustable platform is preferably mounted on rods 6 adapted .to reciprocate vertically in the casing or guides 6 which latter are secured to the bottom of the horizontallydisposed support E. The bottles can be arranged in place on the platform a, and by then depressing the lever D the pipes 0 can be depressed until their lower ends 0 enter the bottles to the desired or necessary extentthat is to say, until the openings are within the bottles. In descending the funnel-shaped guards 0 tend to center or bring the bottles into position to receive the lower ends of the pipes if the bottles have not been accurately arranged on the platform, and, furthermore, these guards then rest upon the tops of the bottles, and thus prevent the liquid from escaping upwardly. When the pipes 0' have been adjusted downwardly to an extent to bring the inlet-opening c to a point near the bottom of the subreservoirs, the liquid in these subreservoirs then flows out through the pipes and into the bottles. As soon as the subreservoirs have been emptied of their contents the pipes c are then allowed to rise and in so doing reestablish communication between the main reservoir and the subreservoirs, thus efiecting a refilling of the latter.

Thus it will be seen that I not only provide a bottle-filling machine wherein either small or large quantities of liquid may be accurately measured off from a main reservoir to subreservoirs, so that only the desired quantities will be discharged into the bottles, but, fur therrnore, I provide an arrangement whereby the same pipes and passages which effect a discharge of the liquid from the main to the subreservoirs are also employed as the means for effecting a discharge of the liquid from the subreservoirs to the bottles, thus giving the said pipes a double function, so to speak, and thereby simplifying the machine and rendering it extremely satisfactory and serviceable in use.

hat I claim as my invention is 1. A machine for filling bottles, comprising a main reservoir, a subreservoir, an endwiseadjustable pipe adapted in its normal position to establish communication between the main reservoir and the subreservoir, but adapted in its endwise-adjusted position to cut off communication between the main reservoir and subreservoir and establish communication between the subreservoir and the bottle or other receptacle to be filled, a suitable support for the bottle or receptacle, and manuallyoperated devices for adjusting said pipe.

2. A bottle-filling machine comprising a main reservoir, a subreservoir provided with an air-vent consisting of a vertically-adjustable or vertically-disposed pipe, a verticallydisposed. and endwise-adjustable pipe adapted in its normal position to establish communication between the main reservoir and the subreservoir, but adapted in its lowered or adjusted position to cut off said communication and establish communication between the subreservoir and the bottle or receptacle to be filled, a support for the bottle or receptacle,

and manually-operated devices for adjusting said last-mentioned pipe.

3. A machine for filling bottles, comprising main and sub reservoirs, and an endwise-adjustable pipe extending through both reservoirs, said pipe being provided with lateral openings adapted to normally establish communication between the two reservoirs, but adapted when the pipe is adjusted endwise to cut off said communication and establish communication between the subreservoir and the bottle or receptacle to be filled, and suitable devices for adjusting said pipe.

4. A bottle-filling machine comprising a reservoir, an endwise-adjustable pipe adapted when adjusted to a lower position to establish communication between the reservoir and the bottle or receptacle to be filled, a funnelshaped guard slidingly mounted on the lower portion of said pipe, a support for the bottle or other receptacle, and suitable devices for adjusting said pipe.

5. A bottle-filling machine comprising a main reservoir, a plurality of subreservoirs, each subreservoir consisting of a glass cylinder clamped to the bottom of the main reservoir by means of clamping-bolts and bottom plates, vertically adjustable vent-pipes extending downwardly into said subreservoirs, vertically-adj ustable pipes extending through both the main and sub reservoirs, said lastmentioned pipes being provided with lateral openings adapted normally to establish communication between the main and sub reservoirs, but adapted when the pipes are adjusted to cut off said communication and establish communication between the subreservoirs and the bottles or receptacles to be filled, a support for the bottles or other receptacles, and suitable devices for adjusting said lastmentioned pipes.

6. A bottle-filling machine comprising main and sub reservoirs, vertically-disposed and endwise-adjustable vent-pipes for said sub- IIC reservoirs, vertically-disposed and endwise-' subreservoirs depending from said main reservoir, vertically adjustable vent-pipes for said reservoirs, vertically-adjustable refilling and discharge pipes for said subreservoirs, suitable devices for simultaneously adjusting said last-mentioned pipes, springs for holding said refilling and'discharge pipes in their normal positions, a vertically-adjustable support for the bottles or other receptacles to be filled,

and funnel-shaped guards slidingly mounted on the lower end portions of said last-mentioned pipes.

Signed by me at Chicago, Cook county, Illinois, this 17th day of October, 1903.

WILLIAM F. FANNING. Witnesses:

A. F. DURAND, WM. A. HARDERS. 

